GOODLINKS: a weekend round-up from across the web

• A lost Mark Twain story will be published in The Strand Magazine. (via LA Times - Jacket Copy)
  
  
• Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz guest star as cocaine dealers on CSI: NY, and Videogum has a clip.
  
  
• Dine Out Brooklyn, our version of restaurant week, will run from March 23 to April 2. (via Out About Brooklyn)
  
  
• Hearst may turn the Seattle Post-Intelligencer online-only. (via the NY Times)
  
  
• Dakota Fanning will play lead signer Cheri Currie alongside Kristen Stewart in the upcoming Runaways biopic. (via the Playlist)
  
  
• A robot programmed to love went too far and held a researcher hostage when it got too “attached.” (via Muckflash)
  
  
• Eater NY posted a great guide to boozy recession specials.
  
  
• Bakon is a new vodka infused with bacon flavor. (via NY Barfly)
  
  
• Tao of Dating writer Dr. Alex Benzer explains why the smart people have a tough time dating. (via Huffington Post)
  
  
• Tyra Banks’s entrance on America’s Next Top Model’s season premiere was over the top as usual. (via Popbytes)
  
  
• Austinist compiled a huge list of free SXSW day parties to RSVP to.
  
  
• Weirdo Micha Barton is holding a contest to win Polaroids of herself. (via Steez)
  
  
• Here’s a sneak peek at the upcoming Tracy Feith for target line. (via Bust Mag blog)
  
  
• Mashable posted an exhaustively helpful list of 85+ tools and resources for freelancers and web workers.
  
  
• Brooklyn venue Southpaw announced that Naughty by Nature will play a Women’s Prison Association benefit on March 18.
  
  
• A new class at Parsons teaches students how to become internet-famous. (via PSFK)
  
  
• I’m loving Elizabeth and James’s Spring 09 line, designed by my fav fashionistas Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. (via Olsens Anonymous)
  
  
• Keira Knightley is slated to star in an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go. (via GalleyCat)
  
  
• Flickr opened up video uploads for all users this week. (via Mashable)